North christopher john wilson (37 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth spine over slate gray paper covered boards. 133 pages. Introduction by William Aspenwall Bradley. Illustrated with 7 of 8 black and white full page line drawings, plate facing page 46 not bound in at publisher. First edition, one of 2500 publis…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited. 1901 Limited edition hardcover, one of 2500. Red cloth and grey paper covered boards with gold and black titles show rubbed corners. Front hinge paper cracked, 132 pp text tight and bright. Professionally photo-reproduced dj in new mylar has one chip near foot…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. First American Edition. Brown cloth, bordered and with decorative front cover device in blind, spine panel lettered/decorated in gilt. Ex-library copy, minimally marked/stamped, modest shelf wear. Small call label on spine panel, rubbed spine extremities with thin strip of loss to cloth at head, some exp…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. This set is offered as is, despite the condition. 3 vols, complete. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, with with gilt title and decoration on spines, dark green cloth. Previous owner's signature on the title page of each volume. A good hardcover first edition set overall; vol. I: 388 pages; vol. II:…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 23cm, 307p., engraved frontis portrait the author in his hunting jacket, printed in double columns, in the original half drak brown calf, tall raised bands, double black leather labels gilt, small blind deice decorations in the panels, marbled boards and endpapers, some wear at the edges, ve…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair+. Hard cover grey cloth bds, red cloth strip to spine, corners and spine ends rubbed, a little age-darkening to bds in places, Fair+, no dust jacket, neat inscription to ffep, tissue-protected frontis.,contents fine and tight, eight etchings by Alex. M. McLellan, states coloured by hand, but they are…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. . . . . Ltd. edition, 2500 copies printed. 8vo, hardcover, red cloth spine w/ grey paper-covered boards, no dj. Vg condition. Illustrations not colored; 1 plate bound in upside-down. Thin chips across upper & lower spine cloth, board corners rubbed through, else contents clean, binding tight. xv…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. dark brown leather with stamped decorations front and back, gilt title block on spine, author held the chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh Uniiversity and was a primary contributor of essays to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 1 of 3 books by a famous Scotish writer born in 1789,…

Hardcover. First edition. 133 pages. Eight hand-colored etchings by Alex M. McLellan, and with a host of black and white vignettes by the latter. Introduction by William Aspinwall Bradley. Orig. published in BLACKWOOD for September, 1828. An exquisite idyll of natural boyhood in Scotland. Limited edition, one of 2000. The hand-c…

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1854. 367 pages. Engraved frontispiece: 'Christopher North in his Sporting Jacket'. Text in 2 columns. 9.5 x 6", gold lettered, blind decorated black cloth, tiny ticket: 'Bound by B. Bradley & Co, Boston'. From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Corner chewed,…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition, 1876. Original binding in good condition, rubbed at edges, with wear at head and heel. No dust jacket. Decorated board and spine. A few minor chips at inner hinge. The Noctes Ambrosianae, a series of 71 imaginary colloquies, appeared in Blackwood's Magazine from 1822 to…

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. 'A New Edition'. Dark blind-stamped cloth binding. Vol.1: engr.f/piece of Wilson+xxviii (inc.Preface by 'J.F.F.' - presumably Ferrier), no tissue-guard +384, t.p. of this vol.undated & does not credit Ferrier; Vol.2: engr. f/piece (John Gibson Lockart) w.tissue -guard+xiv+428; Vol.3:engr. f/piece (Jame…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Octavos, 19th C calf, edgeworn, top cover of vol. 1 detached, extra-gilt spines, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers, chipped spine labels, with half-titles. Uncommon. More table-talk by the author of NOCTES AMBROSIANAE, the same man who named James Hogg "the Ettrick Shepherd". H…

One page, trimmed, 6 x 5", some defects but text clear and apparently complete, as follows: "Professor Wilson wishes the enclosed LIst to be set up immediately [underlined]; & a proof of it to be ready in the [shop?] [phrase underlined] at 10 O'Clock tomorro morning [underlined] as it will be wanted at 1/2 Eleven." A further ins…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First British Edition. A series of 71 imaginary colloquies, that appeared in Blackwood's Magazine from 1822 to 1835. Blackwood released Wilson's works in a series between 1855 and 1858, each volume with a uniform binding that were consecutively numbered with roman numerals. According to the advertisi…

first edition, 1856). Half titles (not vol. IV), front. ports. Orig. dark green cloth, spines lettered in gilt; leading inner hinge sl. cracked vol. I, spines a little dulled. Monogram bookplate vol. I: 'M.H.' A nice set. John Wilson, 1785-1854, Scottish advocate and critic. A series of 'imaginary colloquies' first published in…

Essays of John Wilson (1785-1854) Scottish advocate, literary critic and author and enthusiastic sportsman who wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Spines faded otherwise tight, clean, very good condition 2 volumes. 440 pp. and 433 pp.12mo. 7-1/4" x 5". Red cloth. Beveled edges. Beautif…